Stuart Cramer High School has put 10 more coaches in place as Gaston County’s newest high school nears its August opening.

The school this week announced the hiring of head coaches for boys basketball, soccer, wrestling, volleyball, tennis and cheerleading as well as four assistant football coaches.

The boys basketball coach is Brad Sloan, who has won three county championships in his 14 years as head coach at Southwest Middle School in Gastonia.

Stuart Cramer picked up three head coaches from South Point High School in Matt Robertson (boys and girls soccer), Terrance Grealis (volleyball) and Marigrace Licitra (boys and girls tennis).

The Storm’s wrestling coach will be former North Gaston High and W.C. Friday Middle assistant Jeff Comer.

Stuart Cramer found their first cheerleading coach, Meredith Beam, from Forestview, where she was an assistant.

The football staff is complete with the addition of four assistants for Ben McMillan, who was previously announced as head coach. McMillan brought two former fellow Forestview assistants with him to Cramer: Tommy Bolin and Matthew Scholz. The other two assistants are Carey Pohlman, who previously coached at York Chester Middle, and Cody Killian, who played at Murphy High and is now a youth minister nearby.

Stuart Cramer athletic director Terry Radford will also serve as a football assistant coach. Radford is the former athletic director at Hunter Huss, where he was baseball head coach and football assistant.

Of the new hires, Grealis, Robertson and Licitra will also serve on the school’s faculty. The others either teach at other schools or work outside the school system.

Grealis, Robertson and Licitra had already been selected for the Stuart Cramer teaching staff before the school began searching for coaches. Each of them later had to go through the same application process as the other coaching candidates, Radford said.

Sloan becomes the school’s second coach of a major sport and enters with a history of winning. In 14 years as Southwest’s head coach, he’s led his team to 94 wins and three county championships.

“I felt like he was ready to step up and open a new program,” Radford said. “… What I’ve noticed (about his teams is) they’ve been well disciplined, and he has a handle on the kids.”

Sloan has spent his entire coaching career at Southwest. He graduated from East Gaston High School in 1993 and from Appalachian State University in 1999.

One aspect of the Stuart Cramer job that appeals to Sloan is that he’ll work with only ninth and 10th graders in the first year and will be able to follow those athletes all the way through high school as he builds the program.

“The last few years, I’ve been looking for a new challenge,” Sloan said. “I live very close to the school and it just seemed like a perfect fit to me.”

Sloan teaches physical education at Southwest and will continue in that capacity. He hopes a teaching position at Stuart Cramer will become available next year.

Stuart Cramer opens in August with ninth and 10th grades only. In the first year, the school plans to offer varsity teams in every sport except football. Stuart Cramer will then add a varsity football team in the second year. The number of sports that field junior varsity teams in the first year will depend on the number of athletes who participate, Radford said.

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STUART CRAMER HEAD COACHES

Soccer (boys and girls) — Matt Robertson (former South Point High assistant)